I'm more than a little surprised how well the Scott Pilgrim show has been received. There's been some grumbling from fans, but the critics all seem to love it for some reason.
I binged the whole thing last night. I was bored and the individual episodes are quite short. If you watch it straight through, skipping the intros and the credits,…
I'm more than a little surprised how well the Scott Pilgrim show has been received. There's been some grumbling from fans, but the critics all seem to love it for some reason.
I binged the whole thing last night. I was bored and the individual episodes are quite short. If you watch it straight through, skipping the intros and the credits, you can get through all eight episodes in a little over two and a half hours.
One thing that's important to note is that this isn't an adaption of the comics or the movie. It's more of a companion piece or maybe even a sequel. If you were unfamiliar with the basic elements of the narrative and some of it's better jokes, you'd be pretty lost.
On the whole, I found the whole thing to be more boring than not. In theory, expanding and exploring the characters of the various Evil Exes could be fun and interesting, but I found almost all of it cliche and pointless.
This is also yet another entry in the genre of sequels/remakes/re-imaginings where the goal seems to be to take a dump on the main character. Scott has always supposed to have been an immature jerk, but now he's also a toxic loser and apparently always will be.
Anyway, I'll be around for a more spoilery discussion if you have one next week.
Consequence had an article/interview with the creators and it sounds like they truly didn't want to just retread well-worn material in a new medium, and so the results may be disappointing for you but I don't think that "taking a dump on the main character" was really their ultimate intention.
I'm more than a little surprised how well the Scott Pilgrim show has been received. There's been some grumbling from fans, but the critics all seem to love it for some reason.
I binged the whole thing last night. I was bored and the individual episodes are quite short. If you watch it straight through, skipping the intros and the credits, you can get through all eight episodes in a little over two and a half hours.
One thing that's important to note is that this isn't an adaption of the comics or the movie. It's more of a companion piece or maybe even a sequel. If you were unfamiliar with the basic elements of the narrative and some of it's better jokes, you'd be pretty lost.
On the whole, I found the whole thing to be more boring than not. In theory, expanding and exploring the characters of the various Evil Exes could be fun and interesting, but I found almost all of it cliche and pointless.
This is also yet another entry in the genre of sequels/remakes/re-imaginings where the goal seems to be to take a dump on the main character. Scott has always supposed to have been an immature jerk, but now he's also a toxic loser and apparently always will be.
Anyway, I'll be around for a more spoilery discussion if you have one next week.
Consequence had an article/interview with the creators and it sounds like they truly didn't want to just retread well-worn material in a new medium, and so the results may be disappointing for you but I don't think that "taking a dump on the main character" was really their ultimate intention.
https://consequence.net/2023/11/scott-pilgrim-takes-off-spoilers-creators/